Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Support Worker | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £26,530 - £29,114 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB21 5EF |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7227881/310-CORP-7227881 |
Summary
We are excited to offer an opportunity for a motivated and detail-oriented individual to join our team as an Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Support Worker.
In this key role, you will support the safe and timely supply of medicines by carrying out final accuracy checks on dispensed items. Working within a supportive hospital pharmacy team, you'll help enhance patient safety and the optimal use of medicines.
If you're passionate about improving services, maintaining high standards, and playing a vital part in patient care, we’d love to hear from you.
Actively participating in the daily operations of the dispensary, ensuring the accurate and high-quality dispensing of medicines.
Acting as an ‘Accredited Checking Assistant’ under a nationally recognised accuracy checking dispensing assistant framework.
Support the supply of medicines for both inpatients and outpatients, including accurate prescription processing, labelling, and assembly, while ensuring timely completion and distribution in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
• Actively participate in the daily operations of the dispensary, ensuring the accurate and high-quality dispensing of medicines.
• Act as an ‘Accredited Checking Assistant’ under a nationally recognised accuracy checking dispensing assistant framework, performing final accuracy checks on designated dispensed items against prescriptions and requisitions, while maintaining ongoing competency in checking accurately and safely.
• Support the supply of medicines for both inpatients and outpatients, including accurate prescription processing, labelling, and assembly, while ensuring timely completion and distribution in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
• Support the efficient operation of the clozapine service and ensuring timely distribution of charts to prescribers for signing.
• Manage the ordering and distribution of stock medication for wards, ensuring timely and accurate supply.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Jun 2025